The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-09-23
COMMUNISM AND ANARCHY,


Every stepof human progress has been
marked BY human rights bursting the bounds
Of law which accidental might not natural
Justice, had cast about them"
"Under the fugitive slave law every
Northern man was a presunsiye hound to
catch runaway negroes"
"What did New York do when tho anti.
renters rebelled against their landlords q
---OFegoaiaa.
We continue the illustrations, Acting
upon such reserved right the "Whlskey
Rebellion" was organized in pennsylvania
and sprcad TO Virginia In 1894. The famous
Hartford convention was called In ISl actual
ed by such spirit Of resistance. Upon like
theory the sIrrepressIble conflict inaugural.
ca to overturn the acovenant with death and
league with hell" (the constitution Of the
u. 81 and coniiscate two billions of prop.
erty rights as fully entitled 10 protection rs
any other, and inspired by the same Idea,
John Brown sought Revolution in vir.
ginia and found his death.
Endorsing the same doctrine, over sixty
thousand men voted for Henry George for
Mayor OF New York and nominated him
gor Secretary Of State. Inspired by such a
doctrine, Spies and his coniederates dehed
the same law and alew its servants In At.
tempting to execute II and the same Law
Il now raising The scaaold upon which 10
execute the "reformers." Inspired by the
same doctrine, Herbert Spencer taught that
the conveyancea 10 real property were
written with the point Of the sword dipped
IN the blood OF overpowered and conquered
prior occupants. We might multiply these
Instances adisfHi1Hm and In them recall cir
cumstanees duplicating our own neighbour
and friends and that should be condemned
alike by all II there be one sentence fulici
OF meaning and more to be cherished By
| Americans than any other, Il Il that Of MIR
Bayard In the u. >. Senate, that ''this ls :
country of laws" The most vital principle
to be under all circumstances inculeated and
supported Is, that the administration OF the
established laws. must, and OF right ough
to be, sustained.
The OgeroHiaH commenting on the result
OF the trial of the Chicago anarchists re
marks that athe thing 20 be thankful for In
all this business Is that these men ase 70 dIs
by the hands OF the lawful machinery oi
Justice and not by the lawiess action ol
Judge Lynch. What deplorable act oi
lolIy II would have been had these mef
been iynched BY a Chicago mob Tor theE
we should have had one set of the apostles
OF anarchy perishing by the hands Of anoth
er set OF reckless men assuming to righ
wrowg By taking the law into their owf
hands. The careful, thorough trial given
these anarchists makes their final execution
IN lts lasting moral effect worth all the de.
Law Il has cost"
If the movers Of the gigantic scheme for
overriding the constitution and defying thi
laws which waA organized by s'the orgina
lconspirators, who seifishly fomesfsd, frani.
ed and executed the slrrepreasible conflict,
that drenched our country with blood ant
wasted It's treasure" had possessed the pa
triotism or statesmanship of Calhoun o
Tilden, slavery, the perpetual menace Il
our institutions, would have been abolishel
without the war Of blood and wasted treas
ure. Truly fhese consplratoTs shave dread
fui responsibility Of moral guilt TO answe
for"
These men brought forward a bin O
rights heretofore unknow and still unwris
ten, "higher Law" enacted BY whomsoeve
may deem himself or another oppresset
: wherein Is defined the wrong suffered, IN
relief desired, and the redress determine
upon. They refused 20 be guided by rea
son, the admonitions Of the fathers, or IN
light of history, but with blind fanaticisr
hurled us Into reyoluiion. II four miIlloi
, slaves have been freed, twice that numbe
of white fremen have perished or had the
lives and fortunes wrecked BY the fanalic
: Realizing the precedent established By
{ policy tolerated, because enacted In beha
Of enslaved humanity and under the plea I
necessity, let Us Tepndiate the principle Il
= volved and return 10 eternal vigilance
the enforcement Of the law. as the price {
liberty. Our constitution and laws nre (
that elastic character that amendment
may readily be made where defects exis
!. By this course only can VIC teach commui
Ist, socialist and anarchist that while We e.
tertain the broadest sympathy for the o
pressed humanity In every condition, "
c the remedy for all these evils must be sougl
!. as the law prescnbes and II the law Is d
feetive In reaching this end II must
amended according TO the manner pr
scribed by the constitutions of the countr
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